belgium say they're part of an international terror network that was preparing a bloody christmas campaign in europe that also said to be hiring people and seeking funds to finance terrorists in russia's republic of chechnya. a bushel has the latest from brussels. police here in brussels say they busted an islamic terrorist cell tied to russia's republic of chechnya which is planning attacks three three throughout europe and this evening also it is swooped on fifteen people suspect of recruiting jihad is to fight in iraq and afghanistan it comes just hours after or storage is launched pre-dawn raid on homes of another eleven suspects who were tied to a cicily are linked network the belgian prosecutor's office said quote there were an international terrorist group using it streaming internet sites and saw al mujahideen to plan an attack it comes as part of massive coordinated raids across europe in countries like the netherlands denmark germany where thirty one year old

russian man of chechen origin was arrested suspected of training jihadists to fight in terrorist campaigns those arrested or belgian dutch moroccan and russian origin this is seen as among the first top level links that police have found between russia's chechen terrorist organizations and the worldwide al qaeda network also to say those arrested are suspected of gathering recruit some money to finance a chechen terrorist organization called the caucasus emirate in effect to found a separate islamic state based on the surreal law in the cells of russia and it comes in the wake of horrific attacks in russia from those moscow metro bombings that we saw earlier this year two increasingly bloody suicide blasts in russia's southern republics of degassed on and chechnya of the one of those attacks russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that those chechen the groups were based and

was standing very much in line with al qaida but after that the united states but chechen rebel leader dog or more are on the most wanted list of terrorists but it's really taken this set of events in the past twenty four hours to show that russia's chechen terrorists networks are standing shoulder to shoulder with some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. so your correspondent bruce of today will stay with their story political analyst dimitri babbage from the real novice to news agency says it's high time for the west to realize it's in the same boat as russia as far as the terror threats concern their ideology or jihadist terrorists i think is the best name for them is actually directed against the west in general and against russia as a part of the west and that you know that sounds where in the same ball or with the e.u. and with the united states whether they were states or america wanted or not if you'll

look at the media the french investigate the year five years ago all linked there margy one but they're still. terrorists. terrorists but do not kick asian terrorists because the jihadist movement in north caucasus became very international it's no longer a church and nationalists this is a jihadist movement directed against russia and against the west news about that have been coming all these years so there is a lot of information it was just the lack of political will in the west to acknowledge it and to look at the problem seriously it's time to get real and to look at really instead of creating romantic images basically of there is a very dirty game going on in the media and in the streets the terrorists are looking for and quick united to strike at western civilization for them during the ninety's russia was the weak link in the western civilization because it was so corrupt it was so weak next day it may be your next the impact of

walls the u.s. is fighting in iraq and afghanistan is being felt on the home soil greater than ever it seems recent figures show a record high number of young veterans committing suicide every month how it is going to teach you can investigates what pushes so many us soldiers to take their own lives when they return home from the front line buried year. each day eighteen american veterans commit suicide in the last few years more u.s. military personnel have taken their own lives than have been killed in either iraq or afghanistan the numbers raise a question where is the battle really happening in the field or at home. he was only home for eight months before. before his demons took him over to my home returned as a goalie mentally he never returned. and i have to be. all

the burger and a year and a half in france and when i post torture. are they refused to help. six. these parents share a similar tragedy one of losing their children who had gone to war in iraq strong and healthy man and came back deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares. thousands of american troops returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder but many refused to seek help from the government in fear it's going to show on their records and they won't be hired anywhere but even those who do seek help are often neglected i want to apply for a job. i applied for unemployment benefits. i went to the veterans administration for treatment a year after i was discharged because i was feeling suicidal and i was discharged i was refused treatment actually brian little would served in iraq came to this

charity event for homeless veterans because he too was homeless he and dozens of other young man and women here. not only do many come back from war traumatized but are often left without a roof over their head according to the u.s. national coalition on homelessness forty percent of homeless man are veterans the staggering number of those who see no other option but to kill themselves pushed the country's veterans affairs department to start a suicide prevention hotline they claim they've talked to more than ten thousand veterans out of killing themselves iraq and afghan veterans fuel the epidemic and i share your yours over. there you know. special ways often hear from callers they see no meaning behind the many killings they witnessed any war can be traumatizing for soldiers but the suit side rate

among vets in the u.s. is now the highest seems the vietnam war there was no similar surge after world war two civilians questioning the motive of the. war is now reflected among many young american there whose own doubt drives them even closer to the brink looking at the plight of veterans in the us one can't help asking what is the cost of war is it the one point eight trillion dollars the u.s. pointing iraq and afghanistan last year or is it the shattered lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers will come back home to find out their battle for survival has just begun going to shut down or to clinton maryland still ahead for you this hour . malmo there's like this fishing vessel said here abandon waiting for the sea water to return to the deserts of catholics than the international rehabilitation effort to take back the arrow through proves it may once again return i'm one of the friends join me in central asia cold war what used to be one

of the world's largest landlocked body of water. so crews admitted it fired artillery shells that triggered an early morning clash with north korea says it was part of a military drill and denied it was directed at the north earlier seoul blamed the north for what it called an unprovoked shelling of its island pyongyang claimed the south had violated its maritime border during a military drills so since threatened its neighbor with what it called enormous retaliation russia's foreign ministry said the clashes were acceptable and called on both sides to show restraint. with us what happened deserves condemnation we insist that both sides must take measures to pacify the situation and prevent similar action in the future unfortunately this is already the third incident of the kind this year so this time it is a colossal danger of the situation descending into military conflict this must be

avoided russia has repeatedly warned of the growing tension in the region and is now counting on both sides to arrive at a suitable conclusions. holding military drills in the disputed areas little short of provocation says glyn ford he's a former m.e.p. and author and expert in the region he also believes it will be a mistake for the u.s. to intervene in a northern limit line which is the disputed border is only recognized by south korea it's not even recognized in full by the united states so clearly conducting military exercises in a disputed military military area where there have been incidents this year with the sinking of the. over the last decade it is clearly not wise to put it mildly i mean i think both sides can take some blame in this matter but certainly the general perception that it's all the fault of the north koreans is not one i agree with the u.s. was preparing preemptive attacks against the north's nuclear facilities we've clearly would we're would be provoking something closer to goal for three than

world war three nevertheless even that would cause a meant star bridge to the global economy and to global security looking ahead twenty minutes on this channel we look at one of the bloodiest marine battles in the pacific in world war two and how now the u.s. government is indifferent to those who fought in it sixty five years ago. seventy six hours of intense fighting. six thousand dead at a beach front battlefields several kilometers long. and now there is only one person who cares. you see we are surrounded by garbage everywhere but also there are. on this beach which of course is the most appropriate city signification a symbol of everything that's wrong with our goddamn government allowing our only garbage which to accumulate where so many guys died. a new battle is going

on. will the history be protected. returned to terra what julian cooper story on our t.v. . when wiki leaks made its last revelations about prisoner abuse in iraq attention was focused on the u.s. but the files also play danish troops who were involved sending shock waves through the military top brass in the nordic countries and those ridiculous reports for r.t. after being denied further information from nato in the us the authorities have turned to the whistleblower itself to try to find out the truth. damien's defense officials seem to be on the quest for the truth the weekly beaks after the whistleblower web site released thousands of iraq war logs showing prisoner abuse in iraq denmark launched its own investigation to find out whether danish soldiers were involved if anything had happened in

a wrong way of course we should be open about that but first they turned to nato and to the united states for help with no luck to get the documents from the americans because the americans of the close ally often mark in these documents are american after being refused access to information by nato and their american counterparts. to turn to wiki leaks ironically we got to see those documents before they did because the very same logs that the ministry of defense are after are in position of a danish newspaper which got them not from weekly leaks but from a whistleblower of their own and yes danish defense officials asked the editors for help to we're not going to give them to the defense forces because this is the sort of protection thing called newspaper with a paper keen to protect informants identities the danish military had one last resort we q. makes for a gravel a former military intelligence officer finds the situation absurd he was arrested

and jailed for leaking information on weapons of mass destruction in iraq six years ago and now the officials themselves are turning to leaked documents for truth something gravel himself was jailed for so it only shows a very thorough man. viewpoint regarding freedom of speech. so as to sort of solve if it's embarrassing and. they want to whatever count upon a messenger if we were tree top brass don't like what they discovered this time it might just be that once again it's a website telling the danish people what their soldiers were. doing in iraq it was court t copenhagen denmark. that's a quick check on what's over and i hope dot com tonight the stories result we are getting a lot less privacy for a little more security don't you think about this one the controversy over how u.s. airports are now casting their eyes over more than just your passport or about

those body scanners what you think about that let us know if the call and by the stories you see on our web page also call the jaws of extinction pretty pictures coming out of tigers get a helping paul from big friends really serious side to be going to love this little . artsy dog calms the place to be for that story as well tonight. and. all this week a special reports for you from central asia and the are all sea once the world's fourth largest lake that almost disappeared after a century ago because of soviet a cultural mismanagement and did the receding waters rob the region of its economic climate and lifeline but it didn't deprive people of the hope that maybe one day see would return and now tonight as artie's lindsey france reports there are signs

one of the world's worst manmade environmental disasters may just be reversed. there are people living at this harbor who have never seen the water which once locked out its walls the former port city of a raw skin kazakstan was wanting a bustling hub of business and human activity but beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. rivers feeding massive cotton fields for the soviet union diverted water away from the rivers that fed the erroll sea. pretty hope. she was close to the city my husband and i had bites and we would swim to the islands for picnics on the weekend we swam and lay in the sun nation the sea started moving away the watches became shallow and then just joined up my children so i don't in the pictures until the waters were so aggressively diverted the air all sea was the size of ireland the disappearing sea took with it fishing jobs commerce and an entire way of life

just a few decades ago where i'm standing now as far as the eye could see was bright blue water ships just like this bobbing up and down bringing in the day's catch now when you drive across the former seabed all you see is abandoned villages abandoned ships and camel now people here call it errol coom or errol doesn't it was. more to soviet planned economy is largely to blame for the dying of the irish sea all decisions are made in moscow which took no account of the ecological balance of that region the consequences of that could be felt as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. the r.t.c. region the fines the terms pre-crisis crisis and disaster. it was after the collapse of the soviet union that people were faced with the seriousness of the disaster the sea had split in two in two thousand and five experts harnessed what little water still flowed into the lesser erroll see from this river by building

the cocoa down an eighty seven million dollars project funded in part by the world bank the smaller body of water had become the great hope of the future. we had over two hundred people here from russia kazakstan and his backers stand the workers very hard and many of us lived here on site for two or three years but now we're happy to say the time has come to pack up the structure is working perfectly . welcome to news after years of failed dam projects and wasted water in just a few short years these small downs have turned parts of the cows like desert back into a seascape dotting it would be. the hope is that as the project progresses the dams will be built even higher keeping more water and extending the boundaries and the bounties of the lesser errol back to the city. when the sea left my husband did not want to leave this place he used to say children would grow to

see with. even before he died he believed that the sea was coming back. now as the excess water flows through distances it disappears out into the nearly empty greater peril sees no grand scheme for saving that this yet for the one million people living in kazakstan poorest region measurable improvement will only come when the shores once again fill with folks lindsey france r.t. kazakstan. really good series of reports from lindsay from all this week for you from the i will say more to come in the next few days as well in the next few moments. whose view on the events surrounding now. eleven. problems fired from the french military college in paris he was out he claims for a book introduction he wrote questioning the official version of the tragedy are two sophie shevardnadze caught up with the next.

you. think of. the bar thank you very much for being with us today you now last year you lost your job because you actually question answer rounding the official version of the dance around in nine eleven saying that it was an orchestrated conspiracy by americans

who are specks this theory out you know first of all the real reason why i lost my job was because i disagreed we've been new friends the friends police are both pro and a tory intention but was very very real reason why i had lost my job but. in my last book i have some doubts about the official version of the nine eleven. i think i'm very confident of the future about the truth i'm just waiting about. what would happen but you know many experts think for vashon is not right so we have time but we've been over truth. experts is one thing but do you actually think that one day mainstream media could question the fischel events surrounding nine eleven in the western world it's very different difficult to question the official version but things will change because as i told you.

also in the us people think many people think it's kind of inside job so we have time. historian of the long term you so i'm waiting and i'm confident about the future and you also advocate this idea of clash of civilizations in the present and world what is what is it based on who is involved in it and where are the battle lines drawn well in the long term view is three is is not only a clash of civilizations it's a competition between different nation different cultures but it's also a clash of civilization between china europe the us and a lot of different civilization what i say is we cannot deny this clash of civilization and specially of a fight but the us try to dominate to lead the world and try to impose

western values on kind of western globalization there's also a rising tension with the immigrant communities in many european countries yes i think it's it's a big problem you know for my country and for many european countries we have a serious problem with especially with mostly me grants because it's very difficult to assimilate them inside the nation for european christian church or nation where where is this leading this where could this lead to maybe i hope it will not be the case but maybe we can have kind of see the war and the clash inside of society for european societies as you see the political world. in european union because of my you have far far right parties are stronger and stronger year after year the result can be strong tension inside the european

country russia doesn't have this problem you have a strong unity in your courage or even if you have or some people are but it's a long it's a long time. we've you are minorities let's talk about america a little bit what do you think is america's biggest missions where its major strategic enemies for example america tried to keep the leadership on the world but no it's not possible because of china china race is something very difficult to accept for the u.s. and they would try to contain tried to compete with china especially in the pacific ocean where we live probably we left tension between the two major players china and the us but in the long term view i'm confident about the relationship between russia europe on the us i think in the long term view we have the same

interest we will have to deal with two major problems in the future china on islam the islamic world and the reason why i'm confident about the future between between the u.s. and russia now that republicans actually won control and congress yes how could this affect the future of the start treaty with russia well actually but varies a trend inside the republican party we do which doesn't good opinion or fresh air but i think very is also a pragmatist pragmatism tradition in the republican party and then over to russia is a very important player and also no vote for the us question like afghanistan like iran all the major question.

american have been need russia to find solution so even republican know about that well last we actually need to invite it russia to call for it in the joint european missile defense system what does this mean how do you actually see russia's role in a future european if the affairs in years to come where the russian position is fair i mean because we're just say ok we're we have a balance worth funk stupor nuclear weapons and that we have your. we've your children your on to me side you want to break this. weaves visit balance between the major player and that's not fair i understand the russian concern about that. and i think if the us want to achieve to be accepted then need to include russia into the systems they need to associate the russian in this system of security it's impossible to to deal with volatile

russia also we've chilled because if not what will it mean that the me side chile is targeted against russia thank you very much for this interview i think you're right. i. sweet and clean. salty and fair useful. radioactive and dangerous. and even dead and desolate. they all keep their unique secrets of their bottoms unique

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